Theosophy and the New Psychology by Besant Annie

Author:Besant, Annie [Besant, Annie]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Global Grey
Published: 2015-02-19T16:00:00+00:00

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CLAIRVOYANCE AND CLAIRAUDIENCE

We are to study tonight certain phenomena very well known in their outline, and becoming more and more common in our day. They are still more common if we travel across the Atlantic, and even commoner yet as we go West across America. This increase of people who possess powers at present abnormal and unusual is very marked if you follow along the line I have sug­gested. This increase appears to be partly due to the climatic conditions, and partly, perhaps, to the tem­porary instability that is the result of crossing races with each other - more, however, I am inclined to think, is due to climatic influences than to the other causes. The electric tension in the atmosphere has a remarkable effect upon the nerves, and the condition of the nerves is closely concerned with the lower forms of clairvoyance. I am told that the proportion of people who show capacity in this way has increased even in late years. When I myself was on the Californian Coast some eight years ago, I noticed, in dealing with a public audience, that there was no need to argue as to the reality of the facts; so many people having had experiences of their own, so many more having heard of the experiences of relatives or friends, the task of the Theosophist there changes its character. One had to explain things which they accepted, and not to argue, as you still must on this side of the Atlantic, as to the reality of the happenings. So far as the reality of them goes, however, we find a great change is coming over public opinion here as well. The facts are so well authenticated, they have been subjected to such careful analysis and scrutiny, that when you come to the irreducible minimum you have facts, that even scepticism can hardly challenge.

This evening I want, if possible, to classify these phenomena, and show you the lines along which they appear to go; to show you the part of us which is concerned with them, as I may say, and so perhaps, by giving you an outline of that kind, I may make it easy for you hereafter to put such phenomena in their proper places; to deal intelligently with them; and to explain to those who have not studied the theosophical theory how luminous it is with regard to these abnormal happenings.

Let us recognise, then, that we are to deal now with a perceiver, an inner Man, who is going to perceive as much as he can through his available organs. He is well accustomed to use his physical organs - for tens and hundreds of thousands of years he has been working with these, so that he has comparatively no difficulty with them; he understands fairly well the phenomena that surround him on the physical plane. He can sort them out according to reiterated observations, and he knows quite well that he answers to these whenever the vibrations

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